benno

OK its alive and working 1st go!!

I dont have a real TS to compare it with but seems OK, all pots work etc. Might look at the mods i have seen on the net to improve the amount of bass. But before i fiddle around i think ill just enjoy somehting I made.

Thanks for help and stuff.

Ben

Heres a pic for paul.

it still aint 'alive' waitin on one capacitor.

oh and did i say green i meant sky blue. (crazy clarkes doesnt sell ibanez ts green)

EDIT: the pic might be good

Couple days ago i bought a brand new pickup off ebay to go in my Pacifica 512 neck position. It's a Puretone, humbucker size of single coil pickup. SOunds pretty good, now i have HSH..

Through my MG30 with this pickup the intro to to Sweet Child sounds great!, Thats the sorta sound you get with it.

It cost AU$20!! So, wats that like US$16. I say great value for money.

Ben

javacody.. its not alive yet

I had to order another cap and another resitistor, i dont have a huge box of misc parts unfortunately.

But It WILL work.. well i hope so.

I do care what it looks like becasue half the time ive spent making it has been manufacturing the case, and damn is it solid. lol

And YES i did socket the OP amp

My pics were outa focus... i aint no photographer.

You'll see it painted green in a few days

Ben

Thanks for the reply Paul, specially with the 47pF substitute.

I finished my enclosure except for the paint job, ill put a pic on of it later tonight for anyone interested.

Ben

Hi everyone.

Well my parts arrived (well most of them) and ive spent most the arvo putting my tubescreamer together. Ive done as much as i can but now I am a little comfused. Ive spent about an hour trying to work it out reading the 'data' page in the back of all my electronics catalogues and have learnt alot. Like how to read EIA coding on capacitors.

But its come to asking for help. I am assuming that when i asked for a package from Small Bear for the GGG tubescreamer he would have sent me all the right parts (though I already know he got a resister wrong - no biggy). But when it comes the allll the different types of capacitors Im abit stuck.

- I received at 0.022 instead of a 0.02 - i worked that out and put it in.

- I have 2 ceramic brown capacitors marked 47 +/- 5% 500V SM and have no idea what they are for, any ideas??

- I only got one capacitor marked 2F9224 - which im pretty sure is a 0.22uF and i needed 2.

- I have 2 blue rectangular prisms things marked 1uO JR 63V BC 0403370 and dont know wat they are for.

- i have the 2 1uF capacitors except they are 25volt instead of 50volt and the diagram at GGG doesnt show which way to put them round - so could someone have a look and let me know and will the 25V ones work?!

I guess problems just find me.. so any help would be appreciated..

Paul, I know you made this pedal. If you stuck to the schematic, it would be really helpful if yu had time if you could please take a photo of the top of the circuit board, so i can check mine against it.

The GGG links for this are:

http://generalguitargadgets.com/diagrams/ts_lo_808.gif

http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/instru.../tscmr_inst.htm <-- has all the capacitor values and types.

Thanks alot for any help - i wanna get this thing working.

Ben

EDIT: I looked at the excel file Steve (from Small Bear) sent me and some things dont match up exactly with GGG, so i know to check for next time and also realise that yes everyone seems to have their own variation of the Tubescreamer.

Hot Potz II available here:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi...ssPageName=WDVW

I am lookin for a old wah on ebay and came accross this.

Let us know how it turns out and what you decide to do because i am quite interested in that and would consider doing something similar one day.

Ben

Whoa. What an adventure and bit of clever thinking and recylcing

People pay money for old shower door tracks?!

You obviously didnt want it as a stompbox? I cannot see a footswitch on it. But thats cool. Im just hoping I can get my TS going

At the moment i am waiting on parts for my tubescreamer and I plan to get some liight rectangular prism scrap metal and weld sides on it to create my stomp box. But I found this metal in Dads metal heap. I didnt want to spend good money for an encloser i could make up myself, specially becasue it would have to be sent from the US.

Keep up the original thinking.

Ben

OK i uploaded the whole zip file about the woody on my ISP webspace, but dont go donwloading it too many time unnecissarily - 100MBs a month thats it.

http://users.bigpond.com/gilroyfarms/woody.zip

Well my stuff should be here any day now and i cant wait. Meanwhile I am kinda bored and have been looking into what i will make next.

I was considering making the enclosure for this Tubescreamer but dont know any dimensions yet and would want to worry about it all fitting in (--a thought i had while typing ill just go look up the dimensions for the enclosure in the small bear tubescreamer kit?? and make it that size... gee im smart)

Anyhow what i was thinking of doing next which doesnt seem to be as popular as other effects on the DIY scene is accoustic similator. What i am after are any ideas about making one of these. I play at church and stuff quite regulary and would like the convienience of only one guitar for some of those more 'softer' songs.

I came accross the 'Woody' on... well actually i cant remember but it came in a zip file with schematic, pics and sound file. It sounds OK but I have heard much better -- thinking John Petrucci. As it says in the "woody" doc that accoustic silulators are quite complex devices.

SO what i am after are any comments on the "Woody" or any other accoustic simulators or similar. I posted the doc that came with it. (or will once i find somewhere to upload it)

Thanks guys and gals,

Benno

OK instead of modding you amp why not think about doing a couple DIY stomp boxes. That way there is no risk of wrecking a decent amp and then these effects can be used for other amps as well. Look at www.generalguitargadgets.com and it has reverb, compression and many types of boosts and distortions plus many other effects with the bonus of being able to buy a ready to solder circuit board.

Good luck

Haha yeh that was tradgic, but they must have got mixed up and they sent everything out to me again, enough to make another one mini amp!! weird.

Ordered my 'ready to solder' board a min ago and placed an order with Steve at Small Bear, its great how he has the part lists all done up already, at least i know i am getting all the right components.

OK, an after thought, before i order my ready to solder circuit board. It would be a little difficult, but would save me $20 if i used perf board. Do many people use perf board for circuits this complex or for just simple projects?

Just a thought, and i guess it would mean i would have to learn to layout a schematic onto the perfboard.

Has anyone got an appropiate layout for tubescreamer (from GGG) on perfboard?

I had a look on aussie ebay only TS9s and TS808s for $100+ and i worked out i can get all the parts from small bear for AU$43 plus another AU$20 for the circuit board from GGG (no other option??? i mean its cheaper than buying all that etching stuff and id probly screw it up any how). And i can work out some sort of enclosure in dads workshop... looks over at the scrap metal heap and the welder.

SO that works out to be bout $63... not extremely cheap becasue i have no guarentee it will work.. lol. oh and i have to buy a new soldering iron cause i had to give the schools back.

Anyhow i think ill go for it.

In case you haven't figured this out yet, 51pF is not anywhere close to 56uF!

If all you can get is a 56pF cap, that would be close enough.

The 0.02uF cap is correct. If you can't find one, use a 0.022uF or (2) 0.01uF caps in parallel.

A 100V 1uF cap would be fine. A bi-polar would would probably also work OK, but YMMV.

Yer i noticed, i mean them both to be pF

Ive decidided to go with the GGG tube screamer clone and order the ready to solder ciruit board from them.

I have already come across some issues.

I decided to order all my parts out of the Australian Jaycar catalogue, but it is missing a couple parts:

IC - JRC4558D

51pF Capacitor (maybe meant to be 56uF?)

0.02uF Capacitor (but i assumed maybe it was meant to be 0.22??)

1uF 50 volt non polar capacitor (no idea- i saw 100volt non polarised and 50-volt bi-polar capacitors though)

ANd thats it. I am pretty sure jaycar has their whole catalogue up on the internet www.jaycar.com.au . I would really like to order all my parts from one place so i was wondering if someone could have a look to see if i have overlooked these parts or alternatives or something from Jaycar.

Thanks,

Ben

oh PS the Bill of materials is:

http://generalguitargadgets.com/index.php?...d=90&Itemid=118

EDIT: I see on that website u gave me lovecraft people use lots of other OP amps from the JRC and it also tells is the name change as well (I looked that up and didnt find it either ), so should i just order one of the others that they have listed there? I have in my catalogue LM833N. I really dont have much of an idea.

ok the 3rd and last edit to my post, i found the IC i need for tubescreamer at Small Bear.... mm American. (thinks about $5 postale for 40 cent IC)

Thanks again

Thanks for the advice ill look into it a little more, and also listen to a few of those other pedal samples if i can.

Maybe I will go with the simplified one, cheaper and less things can go wrong .

That Shaka tube looks interesting and i have seen a couple other pedals that actually use tubes.. um Tube Driver on GGG, but it all seems abit hard core for me at the moment although i do have a tube, not sure wat sort or if it is of any use. ansil sentit to me along with tsome other stuff as a bonus when i ordered a few parts off him. Might save it for later.

Ben

Ok so im back, schools over forever and now i have a huge break before uni.

some of u may remember me needing help on the little gem for my project guitar which ended up turning out fine.

Now im moving on to make some overdrive, a copy of the tubescreamer.

I have found schematics at GGG and runoffgroove.

Both of these seem very different with the GGG version alot more complicated.

Im guessing the GGG version in a more closer 'copy' of the TS-808 where as the ROG version just trys to emulate the tube screamer sound.. but i am really not sure.

I would rather go for something simple..

From those who have any idea please let me know your thoughts on my project tube screamer..

GGG- www.generalguitargadgets.com

runoffgroove.com.au

EDIT: i am playing through a MG30 Marshal amp at the moment, which is solid state so if tube screamer only works well in tube amps maybe suggestions for other simple ODs for me to build.

Ben

I was thinking about that once, making a bridge, looks fairly chronic, especially floyd rose style. Good Luck!

Ben

Back plate stays on very well, hasnt fallen off once yet.

Yeh the pickguard is different ay, i needed to find more space to put the knobs in. Looking back now i should have only had one tone instead of 2 and put the knob on the top horn down the bottom.

Ben

Thats the same school project as mine

All up mine cost me about $800 including mistakes..

Good work Tatts! Looks great.

I am the same guy from BOS forum with the AMPED Guitar.

i put it up in this forum somewhere.

Ben

similar to what simprywombat said...I say the best thing to do is actaully trace around another strat

ben

I bought the body and neck and assembled it pretty much.

But i made a few alterations to the body. Lilke in the back i had to rout out a space so the cavity cover would sit flat and and the battery cavity and had to rout out abit more out of the front to fit the amp in and extra knobs. I was sick of the router by the end of it lol.

What made me abit mad was the bodies holes didnt match up the the holes on the neck, had to fill em in and re-drill.

Ben